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Home Dictionary Name: right writ of Page: 3Battel, wager of
Battel, wager of, a form of trial formerly used in military cases, arising in the Court of chivalry and honour, in appeals of felony in criminal cases, and in the obsolete real action called a writ of action. The question at issue was decided by the result of a personal combat between the parties, or, in the case of a writ of right, between their champions. See Ashford v. Thornton, (1818) 1 B & Ald 405, which quickly led to the practice, which had long been disused, being formally abolished in 1819 by 59 Geo. 3, c. 46....
Quarantine, or Quarentaine
Quarantine, or Quarentaine. 1. By Magna Carta, the widow shall not be distrained to marry afresh, if she choose to live without a husband, but she shall not, however, marry against the consent of the Lord; and nothing shall be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital mansion-house for forty days after his death, during which time her dower shall be assigned. These forty days are called the widow's quarantine. Marriage during these forty days forfeits the dower. This right was enforced by writ of Quarantina habenda. See 1 Steph. Com.2. A quantity of land containing forty perches, Leg. Hen. I., c. 16.3. A regulation by which communication with persons, ships, or goods arriving from places infected with the plague, or other contagious disease, or liable thereto, is interdicted for a certain period. The term is derived from the Italian quaranta, forty; it being supposed, that if no infectious disease break out within forty days or six weeks, no furth...
Qude jus
Qude jus, means 'what kind of right'. A writ ordering an escheator to inquire into the extent of a religious person's right to a judgment, before its execution, to make sure that the judgment was not collusively made to avoid the mortmain statute, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253....
Droit
A right law in its aspect of the foundation of rights also in old law the writ of right...
Right patent
Right patent. An obsolete writ which was brought for lands and tenements, and not for an advowson, or common, and lay only for an estate in fee-simple, and not for him who had a lesser estate, as tenant-in-tail, tenant-in-frank marriage, or tenant for life, Fitz. N.B. 1....
Recto de dote
Recto de dote, a writ of right of dower, which lay for a widow who had received part of her dower, and demanded the residue, against the heir of the husband or his guardian. Abolished. See 23 & 24 Vict. c. 126, s. 26, and DOWER....
Vouchee
Vouchee, the person vouched in a writ of right....
Recto de rationabili parte
Recto de rationabili parte, a writ of right, of the reasonable part, which lay between privies in blood, as brothers in gavelkind, sisters, and other coparceners, for land in fee simple, Fitz. N.B. 9....
Recto de dote unde nihil habet
Recto de dote unde nihil habet, a writ of right of dower whereof she had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no dower to his wife, and she thereby was driven to sue for her thirds against the heir or his guardian. Abolished. See ibid....
Breve de recto
Breve de recto, a writ of right or license for a person ejected out of an estate, to sue for the possession of it....
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